CBA News & Notes
December 12, 2014
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The annual open house for How To Make (almost) Anything will be held from 4:30-6:00 on Tuesday December 16, on the sixth floor of MIT's building E14:
Come see what the expanded class has accomplished:
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We're pleased to welcome GlaxoSmithKline as CBA's newest sponsor, with a focus on label-free sensing for advanced drug manufacturing and discovery:
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A CBA team was in Shanghai to kick off the MIT CBA China Innovation Program, with a focus on biomedical devices and the transition from prototype to production:
and to launch a flagship fab lab at the Gezhi High School, which will anchor the new national China Inter-School Fab Lab Alliance:
After that the team was hosted by the city of Shenzhen, where FAB12 will be held in 2016.
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A FABulous documentary on FAB10 has been released:
FAB11 will be returning to MIT August 3-9, 2015, hosted with the Fab Foundation and the cities of Boston, Somerville, and Cambridge.
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Two CBA patents have issued on microfluidic bubble logic devices:
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A number of CBA collaborators participated in a debate on the risks (and opportunities) of AI:
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Prof. Gershenfeld presented CBA research at a meeting of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology:
and received an award from ACADIA:
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Nature covered the Science and Entertainment Exchange:
that was seeded by an early CBA workshop:
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Fortune covered CBA's collaboration with sponsor Google's ATAP team on Project Ara:
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Make featured a decade of fab labs in its 10th anniversary issue:
and reported on fab lab Lima:
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CBA visitor Michael Benson's latest book looks at changing representations of the universe:
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Congrats to CBA student Spencer Wilson on being named a Marshall Scholar:
- Happy holidays from all of us at CBA, and our best wishes for the coming year.
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